This Week in Elasticsearch - September 17, 2014

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Looking for an ELK stack demo? Have a demo you'd like to share with the community? Look no further than our brand new Elasticsearch demos repository. We've got all the information on how to submit to the repository, plus our first shared demo - charting New York City traffic accidents - in this post.

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Where to find Us

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Director of Developer Relations, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

France

New Meetup: David Pilato and Richard Pijnenburg will join the Paris CTO meetup on September 24th to tell you all about Elasticsearch, making sense of your big data, and our Puppet modules. Doors open at 7 PM, and you can register now.

The next Elasticsearch France Meetup will take place September 25th in Paris. We have limited space for this meetup, so registration will only be open for a short time. We still have a few spaces left, so register now to attend.

Germany

The code.talks conference is back in Hamburg this year on October 9th and 10th, though with a new name. (We had a great time there last year when this conference was known simply as Developer Conference EU.) Alexander Reelsen will be speaking once again, along with Isabel Drost-Fromm.

Here's all the Elasticsearch and ELK stack information on offer at code.talks:

Alexander will give you an introduction to the ELK stack, including using it to build real-time analytics dashboards. (Friday, Oct. 10th at 2:00 PM)

The week after code.talks, Leslie Hawthorn will be heading LinuxCon Europe in Dusseldorf, where she'll speak on the panel Empowering Your Corporate Open Source Software Developers. The panel takes place on Wednesday, October 15th at 2:30 PM, and the conference runs October 13-15th at Congress Centre Dusseldorf.

The Netherlands

You can join us next Monday, September 22nd for our first ever Elasticsearch Netherlands Meetup in Utrecht! The fine folks at Bol.com will share all about how they use the ELK stack and have scaled it out to easily process a daily volume of 300M log events and 185 GB of data. Register now to attend.

Can't join us in person? No problem. Thanks to our friends at Bol, the event will be livestreamed.

We're also super excited that this year's DrupalCon EU will be in our hometown of Amsterdam on Sept. 29th - Oct. 3rd. Leslie Hawthorn will be out and about in the hallway track, so make sure to say hello to her! There are also some great talks on all things Elasticsearch and the ELK stack on offer from these Drupalistas:

The DevOps Amsterdam Meetup group is hosting a special session welcoming attendees from DrupalCon. You can join us on Tuesday, September 30th at 6 PM at Old School Amsterdam, steps away from the RAI conference center. Lee Hinman will be on hand to talk about Elasticsearch, monitoring and alerting. You can register now to attend.

Steven Merill of Phase2 Technology will teach you all about using open source logging and monitoring tools. The best part? He'll share all about how the ELK stack powers log management for Drupal.org (think billions of logs). Steve speaks on Wednesday at 2:15 PM.

Spain

The first ever Elasticsearch Meetup in Madrid has been scheduled! The meetup will take place on October 7th from 7:00 - 8:30 PM. Our very own Clinton Gormley will cover all things Elasticsearch. You can register now to save your place.

Sweden

The fifth Elasticsearch Stockholm Meetup is on for October 1st at 5:30 PM. The agenda will be posted shortly, but in the meantime register now to ensure there's a seat for you.

United Kingdom

Please join the folks from the Enterprise Search Cambridge group for a full day Elasticsearch hackathon on September 26th! You can register now to attend.

United States

On tomorow night: Join us for the latest and greatest Elasticsearch Austin Meetup on Thursday, September 18th from 6-8 PM. Agenda is still being finalized, but you can register now!

PuppetConf is around the corner! If you find yourself in the San Francisco area join us in listening to Jordan Sissel's talk on Got Logs? Get answers with Elasticsearch ELK, Wednesday 24th, 5:10 PM. The conference runs September 20-24th.

In or around Bellevue, WA on October 2nd? Cool, so are we! Please join Steve Mayzak to learn all about the ELK stack: what it is, what you can do with it and how it can provide actionable insights into your data. You can register now to attend the CloudTalk Meetup, and many thanks to these fine folks for hosting us!

Where to Find You

Our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, take a moment to let her know.

Oh yeah, we're also hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in:

Paris - September 25, 2014 (Getting started with Elasticsearch & the ELK stack)